What I can tell you though is that the set put very large smiles on people’s faces.ĭuring the quiet times of the expo, I let kids operate the features of the set and they all were entranced by the screen.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of people’s reactions as they were trying out the features turning the cranks, asking if the other white button does anything, and watching Pac-Man being chased round and round the maze. To say there were quite a few requests for a set demo would be an understatement. “ Sacrilege! ” I could at least justify it for the purposes of this article, as well as for it being something that the attendees would not have seen in public yet (especially so soon after the embargo date).

This time it was by displaying an official LEGO set at a convention. I thought that the public attendees might also like to see the LEGO set and MOC placed side-by-side… so for a second time that week, I went against my personal building principles. In the LEGO set, their Pac-Man and ghosts placed on top of the game have much more rounded shapes, and they put importance on mimicking the gameplay action of the maze-chase across the entire screen. These all necessitated building the MOC at a larger scale. For Paul, the key game details that he wanted to incorporate were the “chomping” motion of Pac-Man, the side-to-side wandering of the ghosts, their pixilated look, and brick building the Pac-Man logo across the top. When comparing Paul’s MOC side-by-side with the set, you can see the massive difference in scale.

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